SmartGrids

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[SmartGrids @SmartGrids]

Bob Greenyer is the new GOAT!

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: US officials have had talks about having government acquire shares in AI giants, per NOTUS

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Anthropic just turned the Pope into a legal weapon against the Pentagon.

Yesterday Pope Leo XIV published a 245-paragraph document demanding that AI companies be "disarmed" and that autonomous weapons be permanently banned.

He compared Silicon Valley's unchecked ambition to the Tower of Babel and called the exploitation behind AI development "new forms of slavery."

Everyone posted about it but nobody noticed WHO was sitting next to him:

Christopher Olah, co-founder of Anthropic, was seated in a row of cardinals at the Vatican to personally present this document alongside the Pope. A 33yo atheist tech billionaire standing next to the leader of 1.4 billion Catholics telling the world that AI weapons must be stopped.

This matters because of what's happening in a courtroom right now:

Anthropic has been locked in a legal war with the Trump administration since February. The Pentagon blacklisted them as a "supply chain risk to national security" after Anthropic refused to let the military use their AI for two things: Fully autonomous weapons and mass surveillance of American citizens.

That designation is usually reserved for companies linked to foreign adversaries like China and Russia. But they used it on an American company because that company said no.

The Trump administration called Anthropic "liberal-leaning" and accused them of trying to dictate military policy.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth personally signed the blacklist order and Trump directed every federal agency to stop using Anthropic's technology.

Over 100 enterprise customers called Anthropic asking if they were safe to work with.

The company estimates the government's actions could cost them multiple billions in lost 2026 revenue.

Anthropic obviously sued. Two separate lawsuits in two courts.

A San Francisco judge ruled in their favor and blocked the supply chain designation but the DC appeals court ruled against them. The two courts are in direct contradiction right now.

And a few days ago, the DC appeals court heard oral arguments in the case. Judges were visibly divided.

On May 25, the Pope published a document that validates Anthropic's exact legal position on autonomous weapons. Word for word.

The Pope wrote: "It is not permissible to entrust lethal or otherwise irreversible decisions to artificial systems." That is essentially the SAME sentence Anthropic put in their Pentagon contract that started this entire fight.

And Anthropic's co-founder also spoke at the Vatican event:

He told the audience "every frontier AI lab operates inside incentives that can sometimes conflict with doing the right thing" and called for "moral voices that the incentives cannot bend."

A co-founder of an AI company publicly admitted at the Vatican that AI companies CANNOT be trusted to regulate themselves...

This is literally a legal strategy by Anthropic.

Anthropic now has the most powerful moral authority on the planet publicly endorsing the exact ethical position that the Pentagon punished them for. Every judge reviewing this case watched the Pope validate the two red lines Anthropic drew.

The Pope's encyclical will almost certainly be cited in court filings.

The Pentagon's argument is that a private company cannot dictate how the government uses AI in matters of national security. Anthropic's argument is that certain uses of AI are fundamentally unethical regardless of who's deploying them.

Yesterday the Pope told 1.4 billion people that Anthropic is right.

The appeals court could rule any day now. If Anthropic wins, every AI company in the world gets legal precedent to refuse military contracts on ethical grounds.

If they lose, the message to Silicon Valley is clear: Build what the government tells you to build or get destroyed.

Either way, the company Trump tried to crush literally just turned the Vatican into their ally.

What do you think?

[Deep Tech Week @deeptechweek]

The world's first functioning prototype of a Zero-Point Energy extraction chip was announced today

It was presented 6 weeks ago to a select audience at NYC @deeptechweek

For the first time ever, you can now see @DrSonnyWhite explain the physics and economics behind ZPE chips

[Andrew Côté @Andercot]

Take five minutes to understand how a company has already successfully extracted usable electrical energy from the vacuum of empty space.

[Ancient History Hub @AncientHistorry]

In 458 BC, Rome was on the brink of collapse.

An invading army had trapped the Roman consul and his legion in a mountain pass. Panic spread through the city. The Senate did the only thing they could think of:

They sent messengers to find a 60-year-old farmer plowing his field.

His name was Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus. He had once been a senator, then lost his fortune paying his son's bail. Now he worked his own four-acre plot just to feed his family.

When the Senate's envoys arrived, they found him sweating behind a plow. They asked him to put on his toga so they could deliver an official message.

The message: Rome was making him dictator. Absolute power. Total command of the army. No checks. No oversight. No term limit.

He accepted.

Within 16 days, Cincinnatus had raised an army, marched out, surrounded the enemy, and forced their surrender. The republic was saved.

He had legal authority to rule for six months. He could have stayed. He could have expanded his power. He could have done what every other ruler in human history did when handed unlimited control.

Instead, he resigned on day 16.

He took off the toga, walked back to his farm, and finished plowing the field he'd left half-done.

Twenty years later, when Rome faced another crisis, they called him back. He was 80 years old. He took command, crushed the conspiracy, and resigned again, this time after just 21 days.

He died poor. On his farm.

2,200 years later, when George Washington was offered a kingship after winning the American Revolution, he refused and went home to Mount Vernon. The reason he was hailed as "the American Cincinnatus" is because Europeans literally could not believe a man who had won would willingly give up power.

King George III, on hearing Washington would resign rather than rule, said: "If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world."

The lesson isn't that Cincinnatus was humble.

The lesson is that for most of human history, the people most qualified to lead were the ones who didn't want to. And the moment a society starts rewarding those who chase power instead of those who flee from it is the moment the republic begins to die.

Cincinnati, Ohio is named after him.

Most people who live there have no idea why.

[SmartGrids @SmartGrids]

@BrianRoemmele This is a truly epic rendition. Plant was extremely moved.

[Ren @Renmakesmusic]

'Instigator' is liveeeee!

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[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: Trump Administration may punish some NATO countries for lack of support on Iran, per WSJ

[SmartGrids @SmartGrids]

@JesusIsMyKingX Amen

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Imagine a world where hard work is rewarded, truth and justice prevail in courtrooms, the government doesn’t steal your labor by debasing the currency, bureaucrats aren’t captured by corporations, and our taxes go toward critical infrastructure instead of wars overseas.

[Jay Anderson @TheProjectUnity]

Filmmaker David Lynch's Diagram for Transcendental Consciousness is one of the greatest, easiest to understand explanations for how our reality is made of MIND first, MATTER second.

I promise this is genuinely worth your time.

It's fantastic.

[Ian Carroll @IanCarrollShow]

The password was Epsteindidn’tkillhimself and all 500 passes have now been used up.

The next password is an address. But I’ll post a more complete hint tomorrow morning.

Someone asked why turn the access to a tool like this into a game- isn’t this serious?

Great question- yes- exposing the Epstein network is incredibly serious. And we’ve built a serious tool to help the world do that.

But as a tiny team of four (just two devs) that built this in just two months, we are trying to get it out as fast as possible, but also stress test it carefully so we don’t put out a broken product.

This is just a fun way to slow trickle in users a few hundred and then a few thousand at a time instead of opening the floodgates to potentially tens or even hundreds of thousands over night.

Today we had to fix a few things and it was very good that there weren’t 200k people all trying to access the servers while we did.

Appreciate all the hype. Hopefully you find it as revolutionary as we do. And hopefully we can get informed enough and loud enough that we can see people actually investigated, and locked up for a long long time.

[SmartGrids @SmartGrids]

@Renmakesmusic Cymru am byth!

[Heritage Matters🔱 @HeritageMatterz]

The Hurdy-Gurdy, Medieval European string instrument.

The hurdy-gurdy's earliest known origin dates back to the 10th century.

Musician: Andrey Vinogradov

[Drewski @SeekingAnon]

If you have 8mins enjoy this Truth Bomb art

Ren - Vincents Tale

[stacey @stacey12500]

Ren - Vincent's Tale - Starry Night https://t.co/VWT7kGF0v4 via @YouTube THIS IS A MUST WATCH ❤️❤️❤️ @Renmakesmusic A masterpiece!! 👊

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

I’m sorry.

Doing my best to prepare you for what I have seen ahead.

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

China is dominating the worldwide race for power:

China now has a record 3.75 terawatts of power generation capacity.

That capacity has doubled over the last 8 years.

This is nearly 3 TIMES more than the US, which has ~1.30 terawatts of capacity.

Furthermore, China has 34 nuclear reactors under construction, more than the next 9 countries combined.

Nearly 200 other reactors are planned or proposed.

At the same time, there are currently no large commercial nuclear reactors under construction in the US.

The US must act now to keep up with China.

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Elon Musk just confirmed the most INSANE IPO in history.

SpaceX is going public in 2026.

$1.5 TRILLION valuation. Raising $30+ billion.

That's the biggest IPO ever made. Beating Saudi Aramco's $29 billion record from 2019.

But here's what everyone's missing:

This isn't about space tourism or Mars missions.

Elon is literally about to win the entire AI race.

And 99% of people have no idea how...

Here's the problem killing every AI company right now:

POWER.

Oracle just reported earnings.

They burned through $12 BILLION in one quarter building data centers.

Their free cash flow? NEGATIVE $10 billion.

Revenue missed estimates. Stock crashed 11%.

Microsoft, Amazon, Google all scrambling to find enough electricity for AI training.

The brutal math:

The US generates 490 gigawatts of total power.

AI is projected to need 123 gigawatts by 2035.

That's a QUARTER of the entire electrical grid. Just for artificial intelligence.

Goldman Sachs says AI energy demand could jump 165% by 2030.

There is literally not enough power on Earth to run AI at the scale these companies are promising.

Every data center needs massive cooling systems. Billions of gallons of water per year. Insane energy costs.

And the infrastructure can't keep up.

Elon's solution?

Stop building on Earth entirely.

SpaceX is building data centers in SPACE.

Not a concept. Not 10 years out. Literally starting in 2026.

They're upgrading Starlink V3 satellites to carry AI computing chips.

Each satellite gets 24/7 solar power. No clouds. No night. No weather disruptions. No grid bottlenecks.

And the insane part is that Starship can deliver 300 to 500 gigawatts of solar-powered AI satellites into orbit every single year.

At 300 gigawatts per year, the AI computing power in space would exceed the entire U.S. economy's total electricity consumption within two years.

Just from satellites. Processing in orbit.

While Oracle is begging banks for loans to finish data centers and OpenAI is stuck in circular funding arrangements with Microsoft, Elon already owns everything:

The rockets. The satellites. The launch infrastructure. The AI company (xAI).

He doesn't need to ask utilities for permission.

Doesn't need grid approvals from local governments.

Doesn't need to build nuclear plants or wait for clean energy.

He just launches.

And everyone else is scrambling to catch up:

Jeff Bezos sees it. Blue Origin announced they're building their own orbital data centers.

Google just launched "Project Suncatcher" with plans to deploy AI satellites by 2027.

Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, literally BOUGHT an entire rocket company (Relativity Space) just to compete in this space.

But they're all 3+ years behind Elon.

SpaceX already has 6,000+ Starlink satellites in orbit. The infrastructure is built.

The $30 billion from the IPO?

Going straight into scaling orbital compute.

SpaceX revenue is jumping from $15 billion in 2025 to $24 billion in 2026.

Most of that from Starlink. Now add space-based AI infrastructure on top.

Here's why this matters:

Whoever controls orbital computing controls the AI revolution.

And there's only ONE company on Earth with fully reusable rockets that can launch at the scale required.

Jensen Huang, Nvidia's CEO, called space data centers "a dream."

Translation: Nvidia is screwed if Elon actually pulls this off.

Because if SpaceX succeeds, every AI company on the planet becomes Elon's customer.

OpenAI needs compute? Running on SpaceX satellites.

Google needs more capacity? Renting orbital infrastructure.

Microsoft needs power? Paying SpaceX for launch and compute access.

Elon won't just be in the AI race.

He'll own the entire track everyone else is running on.

The $1.5 trillion valuation sounds crazy until you realize what he's actually building.

It's not a rocket company. It's the infrastructure layer for the next 50 years of computing.

People calling it overvalued have no idea what's coming.